BS boarding etiquette
Aug 20, 2012, 8:58 am
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BS boarding etiquette
Sorry if this question has been adressed before; however, a Forum search did not reveal it has, at least recently.
If you are traveling in Business Select and making a connection, what is the boarding etiquette if your connecting flight has already begun boarding when you arrive at the gate?
Can you go directly to the GA and, in a sense, jump in line since your number is going to be lower than anyone boarding at that moment?
If you are traveling in Business Select and making a connection, what is the boarding etiquette if your connecting flight has already begun boarding when you arrive at the gate?
Can you go directly to the GA and, in a sense, jump in line since your number is going to be lower than anyone boarding at that moment?
Last edited by 6P&E; Aug 20, 2012 at 11:08 am
Aug 20, 2012, 9:22 am
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Aug 20, 2012, 2:06 pm
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I would just up to the gate agent and see what they want you to do. Often they will just let you board right then. I have seen lots of people do it and don't feel like its disrespectful or anything (you had a higher boarding number and just got there late). If it causes a high slowdown some people might be mad, but I have never seen that before. Usually the gate agent will just look at your boarding pass and let you on.
Aug 20, 2012, 8:43 pm
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If I arrive late or my connecting flight arrives late, I immediately go to the GA and board. I usually have A30 and below, obviously 15 and below when I'm on a BS ticket. I've never had anyone question it before.
Aug 26, 2012, 10:52 am
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I had a business select ticket one time and landed early enough to get on a previous flight that had already begun boarding. At the gate they printed me out a new ticket which had a C-number, but it also said business select on it. The gate agent walked me to the front of the boarding line (which was at the beginning of the B's).
Aug 26, 2012, 3:14 pm
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I personally have no problem doing this whether BS or otherwise. If my boarding number is close to 30 or 60 often times I'll wait until my "chute" empties out then get up from my seat and board. I don't think I'd have the stones to do it in the middle of a group of 30 passengers boarding the A/C.
Last edited by Dunbar; Aug 26, 2012 at 3:21 pm
Sep 11, 2012, 9:45 pm
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This is why the boarding process is crap. Plus people jump all the time and the agents never ask them to wait. I had A26 the other day, guy standing in front of me covering up his card had A 35. Happens almost all the time. Status on SWA has very little value.
Sep 11, 2012, 10:11 pm
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Please define "this".
After my last flight (and I fly very infrequently) I wrote a snail-mail letter to WN to let them know that I appreciated that the agent enforced the boarding order, so I wouldn't say never.
If you saw it, why didn't you point it out? There's nothing like a good public shaming. Why didn't you stand in front of him?
Plus people jump all the time and the agents never ask them to wait.
I had A26 the other day, guy standing in front of me covering up his card had A 35. Happens almost all the time. Status on SWA has very little value.
Sep 12, 2012, 5:00 am
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Sep 12, 2012, 6:09 am
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That said, easyJet, who originally modelled themselves on SWA, will introduce allocated seating next month.
Neil
Sep 12, 2012, 7:15 am
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If you saw the #, you should have asked what # he was and then said "Oh...I should be in front of you" while getting in your numeric place.
No muss no fuss.
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Sep 12, 2012, 1:04 pm
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Sep 12, 2012, 1:59 pm
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It's WN. Take care of yourself because nobody else will. Ask the GA and, if someone wants to say something, let them address it tot he GA. If they don't work for the air carrier you are flying, you should care what they think, say or do.